Description
InRe-Constructing Archaeology, Shanks and Tilley aim to challenge the disciplinary practices of both traditional and the `new' archaeology and to present a radical alternative - a critically self-consious archaeology aware of itself as pracitce in the present, and equally a social archaeology that appreciates artefacts not merely as ovjects of analysis but as part of a social world of past and present that is charged with meaning. It is a fresh and invigorating contribution to the emergence of a philosophically and politically informed archaeology.
Table of Contents
Introduction; 1: Issues in archaeological theory and practice: critique and development; 1: The present past; 2: Positivism and the ‘new archaeology'; 3: Facts and values in archaeology; 4: Presenting the past: towards a redemptive aesthetic for the museum; 2: Perspectives for a social archaeology; 5: Hermeneutics, dialectics and archaeology; 6: Social archaeology: the object of study; 3: Material culture and social practices; 7: Style and Ideology; 8: Social values, social constraints and material culture: the design of contemporary beer cans; 4: Conclusions; 9: Archaeological theory and practice today
